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Scott Thomas Anderson December 31, 2020Updated: January 3, 2021, 5:25 pm Leon Schlesinger, the producer who created Warner Brothers’ “Looney Tunes,” meets Porky Pig in the 1940 short film “You Ought to Be in Pictures.” Photo: Cartoon Research , Cartoon Research In 1932, cinema screens were glowing with a Betty Boop cartoon called “I’ll Be Glad When You’re Dead, You Rascal You.” This animated dream of cannibalism debuted some of the first live-action footage ever o...

TiVo Channel? For those tuning in to the Adult Swim O.G. cartoon show, Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, you may hear a familiar voice. No, you’re not hearing things—that is late night show host, Stephen Colbert, voicing villains with ray guns or judges with gavels. Colbert, who took part in myriad comedic gigs before landing his major hosting job on CBS, was one of many standout voice actors on Birdman in the show’s history. Birdman, which was perhaps Adult Swim’s most highly produc...